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• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were providing free flu shots in the student center. WELL it turns out my suitemate Gabe ’08 got one…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I’d fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science. Often,…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here’s my excuse… Thursday 12/1: The day I’d set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work, etc. before heading into…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on Saturday night (ok, so it was actually really early Sunday morning) and sleep through…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It’s a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we’re hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike ’07, we spied out…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  So about those flip flops… snow part deux

  

  See my last entry about No Flip Flops Looks like the snow has finally arrived for real. Woke up this morning to these sights in tree-lined Brookline. This week: look…

  • by Bryan
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  HUGE NEWS: MIT opens world’s largest neuroscience research center ———– European Union Speaker Panel Integration and International Policy Featuring the following Consul Generals: Mr. John Rankin, HM Consul General, UK…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I’ve always seen things in a good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that’s accidentally been replied-to-all,…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can’t believe it. It’s been a whole year. An entire year. They’re selecting Early Action applicants. Yes, on a Saturday. These folks are amazing. I hung around the Infinite…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants and the difficult…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise… I don’t want to destroy the organic unity of this entry.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who’s been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here’s a bit of good news – we got ’em! They’ll be…

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday’s Boston Globe about the opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  Today I attended the Network of Sloan Undergraduate Women (NSUW) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association (SUMA), which is for…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT… It’s a Monday, or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it’s a “Reading…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of Massachusetts? With flip flops of course! Try again. While I must say that flip flops are my…

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  A few random notes today… Mystery solved! You may remember that a while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of the program, we spent two days…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005